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Show I? DIM ' 1 ' ' fiVALLOrO A LAMP. PcculTorAcclde rt That Happened to a FoUr-Year-Old Child. Wlion lilUmrd Laug; a driver for a department store In New York City, roturned homo Saturday night, ho laid on tho dining; room tablo tho small electric lamp and bnttory which ho uses after dark to road tho namca"bn door holla In dollvcry of goods. About noon .Sunday his llttlo daughter Anna, 4 years old, espied the lamp. Tho child touched tho button and tho llttlo bulb glowed. Then she put tho bulb In her mouth; It was but an Inch long and about half an Inch In clrcumforonco. Somehow tho bulb broke oft and sllppod down her throat. Hor mother hoard tho child strangling and rnn to hor as. 'slstanco, and tho father hurried for a physician. Ho wns gono half an hour, and found no doctor homo. Ho then decided to call nn ambulnnco and tho child wns removed to a hospital and tracheotomy porformed. Beforo tho oporatlon was completed llttlo Anna was dead. The physicians finally lo. catod tho glass bulb In tho child's left nostril. It Is supposed tho mothor had succeeded In clearing tho Infant's throat, but that tho child was too far gono to breatho and really died of strangulation. |